Hengist (?Ė 488?) He is
recorded as a warrior and Saxon King of Kent
and lived long enough to have been active during the King Arthur period.

Horsa (?Ė 455?)Hengistís brother. Death in 455 would put him well before
the start of King Arthurís reign.

Hengist
was the leader with his brother Horsa of the first Saxon
invasions of Britain.
He himself may have been a Jute. According
to Bede (673? Ė 735) Hengist
brought a military force to Britain
at the invitation of the British King Vortigern in
449 to assist on a mercenary basis in war with Picts.

After a rift with Vortigern
the Saxons seized Kent,
a situation which Vortigern agreed to accept. Hengist is then said to have created a Kingdom in Kent and
used it as a base for further Saxon expansion and this encouraged more
immigrants to come to Britain.

The later kings of Kent
claimed descent from Hengistís son Aesc or Oisc and it is possible
that Aesc actually establiseh
the kingdom.

The names Hengist
and Horsa mean Gelding and Horse and it may be that
these were titles derived from a cult of horsemanship.

Horsa was killed at the battle of Aegelsthrep in Kent (possibly Aylesford)